The build was handled by Audi apprentices as a learning experience.
Audi has taken the humble NSU Prinz 4 from the 1960s and early '70s and turned into a wild EV concept.
Revealed on Saturday, the one-off vehicle was a project undertaken by apprentices at Audi's plant in Neckarsulm, Germany, to mark 150 years of production at the site. "We wanted to build a car that was not only fast and looked cool but also honored the 150th-anniversary of the site," Dean Scheuffler, one of the apprentices involved in the project, said in a statement.
Audi wasn't around 150 years ago but the site was originally home to production of NSU sewing machines and later bycycles and motorcycles. NSU would eventually move into car production starting in 1905, including launching the first rotary-powered car in the form of the 1964 Spider . That was three years before Mazda launched its first rotary car,Although NSU survived the Second World War, it was acquired by Volkswagen Group in the late 1960s and merged with fellow VW Group brand Auto Union.
NSU's Prinz 4 was launched in 1961 and built until 1973, making it one of the final NSU-branded vehicles. The tiny coupe was powered by an air-cooled twin-cylinder engine with rear mounting, but in the modern concept, dubbed the EP4 , the 30-hp engine has been replaced by a 236-hp electric motor borrowed from an E-Tron SUV (
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